As someone who is passionate about technology, this is my blog designed to help educate people about social media. As well, I want to use this social media forum to bring our growing tech community together.

Note: This is an mySA.com City Brights Blog. These blogs are not written or edited by mySA or the San Antonio Express-News. The authors are solely responsible for the content.

At a recent, LinkedIn seminar, a younger students asked me if he should list his last job at a popular fast food chain. When you’re a young adult, it’s hard to figure out how to convey what experiences should be placed within this social media marketing powerhouse. So I pulled up this profile from one […]
[Read More]

If you think that Labor Day is the time to bring out your winter wardrobe and retire the white shoes and put your other summer accessories into storage, may I suggest that you help your high school children understand the holiday’s real significance with this simple exercise. Labor Day, if you remember your American history, […]
[Read More]

Sitting in a sport bar with my wife on our Friday date night, I asked the server to see if he could move the UTSA-Houston football game to the best TV in the restaurant. My server got her boss to move the game, until some patron asked the bartender to reset the game to the […]
[Read More]

School starts Monday here in south Texas, but it begs this question: “Have you thanked your school professional today?” A lot of businesses thank teachers with discounts and other programs such as a free cup of coffee or something of that nature. Yet, how can we forget the rest of the educational staff that come […]
[Read More]

Growing up in the Midwest, I remember my father listening to WSOY in Decatur, Illinois, listening to the morning news during the winter for school closures. My Dad, an early riser, would listen through the school and business closures if there was a significant amount of snow. If my school closed for weather-related issues, my […]
[Read More]

Sitting with a colleague for a happy hour drink the other day, I got a text from a non-profit organization asking me why I had asked them to drop my name from their daily Twitter blast. “Hey Matt thank you for your feedback,” the nonprofit tweet social media guy posted. “Is there anything particular we […]
[Read More]

Every parent dreams of the day their son or daughter graduates from college and finds a career that allows them to fly the nest and be independent. Most college students will tell you that once they’ve lived in a dorm, a co-op apartment or on their own, there’s no going back to mom and dad. […]
[Read More]

As you head to your church, temple or mosque, can I ask that you say an extra prayer for our military professionals who are participating in the humanitarian airlift to northern Iraq? I have several friends with children who serve as aircrew on C-130s and C-17s. At AFSOUTH headquarters in Naples, I also worked with […]
[Read More]